Thank Og I’m not the only one. That song is just awful in so many damn ways. I will gladly listen to the terribleness that is “Grandma Got Run Over”, and any other novelty crap to avoid hearing that 5 minutes of Brenda Lee.
On the flip side though, the Matina McBride version of “What Child is This” gives me goosebumps, and I am generally a scrooge when it comes to Christmas music.
For all of you who hate the little drummer boy, I give you The Annoying Drummer Boy
But here we are at three a.m.
With Ringo Starr of Bethlehem
I just love that line.
I did mention it, just didn’t know the title. Or I blonked it out. It is a dreadful, dreadful song.
The Johnny Mathis version would make the perfect backdrop for the ultimate gay Christmas orgy video. :eek:
YES. Ew, ew, ew!
I’ve Got Some Presents For Santa, Sarah Taylor.
Too smarmily smutty for my tastes, despite my usual tolerance for double entendres and the like.
Wow.
So much vitriol for songs. I guess it’s not a shock, given how overplayed so many of them are, but folks, really? Y’all seem to be missing the spirit of the season. :dubious:
I do note that, with very few exceptions, no actual Christmas carols are listed; it’s ALL “novelty” songs. Well, that’s what they were when they first surfaced; they only become “standards” after years of not going away. 
I’m really surprised at the unhappiness with “Little Drummer Boy”, which was written in 1941, but not actually recorded until 1951 by the Trapp Family Singers (yes, THOSE Trapp Family Singers!). According to the original writer, it’s a transcription of a Czech carol, though which one has never been determined. The popularity goes back to 1958, when the Harry Simeone Chorale recorded it. It’s been covered at least 200 times, which indicates it’s pretty damn popular. But my liking of it might have to do with the fact I was in a school Christmas pageant/play as a drummer boy, sidekick to THE drummer boy, in the 5th Grade. Check out the Pentatonix version; it’s more upbeat, which I do agree the song needs.
If there was one “standard” I wish would go away, it’s any attempt to sing “Silent Night” as anything but the lovely carol it is. For some reason, people love to take liberties with that carol, mixing it up with all sorts of other things. I don’t care what language you sing it in, sing it with the holy reverence it deserves, please.
As a male member of a choir, let me add that if I never have to say “puddly-pum” again, it will be too soon.
The neighborhood grocery store plays the standards, reimagined. Some songs are done boy band style, some R&B Diva style, and so on. None are improvements. Next time I’m buying ear plugs.
Contrary to popular opinion, I like Little Drummer Boy (original version). I think the boys choir with the echo effects sounds cool.
This, specifically the Jackson 5 version. Fortunately I’ve only heard it once this season and that was on Pandora.
ETA: great. Now it’s on CISL.
What about Weird Al and Annoying Orange? Guaranteed to be, er, weird and annoying!
The overplayed Christmas dreck in this neck of the woods is Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. It’s inescapable. I mean, on a song-for-song basis I probably hate Last Christmas more but the Carey song is on endlessly.
Aw, these are two of my favorites, pop music wise. And anyone who doesn’t like Messrs. Bowie and Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy deserves a lump of coal in their stocking:p
Exactly! It has nothing at all to do with the holiday season, other than the timing of when his heart was broken.
Though, in hearing the lyrics the other day, I realized something:
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart // But the very next day, you gave it away”
The day after Christmas is Boxing Day. So, (s)he was just giving George Michael’s heart away to someone in need. 
I generally like most of the old religious Christmas standards, so I throw no shade at them.
However, how has no one mentioned that horrid Mariah Carey abomination “All I Want For Christmas Is You”?
I can’t believe this is post #74 (unless someone sneaks one in while I’m typing) and I’m the first to say it…
Rudolph!
I detest that thing. I suppose it counts as a novelty song… it should, by any reasonable standard, but it’s been around for fucking forever and I doubt it will die in my lifetime.
Here’s a game to play. Take that one line and change it to something else that rhymes with heart and see how many funny things you can make:
Last Christmas I burned a pop-tart
Last Christmas I drew you a chart.
Here’s the caveat: They have to work with the syllabic nature of the song.
Last Christmas I married Paul Blart
Last Christmas I ripped a wet fart
Please don’t hijack my thread with a better concept. 
Was that sung in a “Buh-wheat” style?